[agents] [Call for Participation] - AAAI Fall Symposium on "Agent teaming in Mixed-Motive Situations"

[Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman]

** Apologies for any cross-posting **

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder invitation for our symposium at the AAAI Fall Symposium
Series
<https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-2023-fall-symposium-series/>
happening
at Arlington, VA, USA from October 25-27, 2023. The submission
deadline is *August
17, 2023*.

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Call for Papers: *AAAI 2023 Fall Symposium*
Symposium Title: *Agent Teaming in Mixed-Motive Situations
<https://successmuri.org/workshops/fss23/>*
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*Important dates*- Paper submission deadline: August 17, 2023
- Paper notifications: August 30, 2023
- Camera-ready submission: September 15, 2023

This symposium focuses on agent teaming in mixed-motive situations that
arise naturally when agents have different goals, incentives, and
decision-making processes. In this symposium, we consider an “agent” to be
either a goal-directed computational agent, whether embodied or not, or a
human. Agents may be tempted to prioritize their individual interests over
the long-term success of the group, leading to competition, cooperation,
coordination, or indifference toward other agents. To navigate these
dynamics, agents need to understand the goals and intentions of others,
identify potential allies or adversaries, align their values with others,
and carefully manage information sharing with other agents. Additionally,
when humans and computational AI agents collaborate in mixed teams,
additional complexities arise, including issues of language comprehension,
decision-making transparency, and social cue interpretation.

This symposium emphasizes the key challenges in agent teaming within
mixed-motive situations: How should agents take actions, given that actions
reveal information to allies, adversaries, and other agents? How can agents
take actions for goal/intention alignment? How can agents identify allies,
adversaries, or other agents and model subteams? What kinds of
representations best enable mixed-motive interactions? How can agents
assess the intent and proficiency of other agents? How can agents assess
the degree of cooperation by other agents? How should agents communicate
with allies, adversaries, or other agents?


*Topics*
The symposium invites submissions related (but not limited) to the
following topics in mixed-motive situations involving computational AI
agents (AI-AI/human-AI interactions).

   - Strategies for proficiency communication with allies, adversaries, or
   other agents
   - Strategies for controlled deception (hiding information from
   adversaries but sharing information with allies)
   - Methods for goal alignment through goal and intention communication
   - Strategies for negotiation and consensus
   - Assessment of proficiency of self and other agents
   - Assessment of goals, intentions of self, and other agents
   - Identification of allies, adversaries, or other agents
   - Identification and modeling of subteams and subteam goals/intentions
   - Metrics for assessment of proficiency, degree of cooperation, and
   other related team measures



*Symposium format*The symposium will include invited keynote talks, panels,
breakout discussions, accepted papers talks, and a poster session.


*Submission*Regular papers (6 pages + references), Position papers (2 pages
+ references), and Summary of previously published papers (2 pages) in
standard double-column AAAI Proceedings Style via the AAAI submission site.

*For those interested, accepted papers will be published by AAAI as part of
the AAAI Fall Symposium Series Proceedings.*




*Organizing Committee - Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman (Carnegie Mellon
University),- Jacob Crandall (Brigham Young University),- Jiaoyang Li
(Carnegie Mellon University),- Gordon Briggs (Naval Research Laboratory),-
Aaron Steinfeld (Carnegie Mellon University),- Michael A. Goodrich (Brigham
Young University),- Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University),- Holly Yanco
(University of Massachusetts Lowell).*
Contact: Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman (email: sureshkj at andrew.cmu.edu)

More information on the symposium can be found at our website:
https://successmuri.org/workshops/fss23/.

Registration details and related information can be found on the AAAI Fall
Symposium Series website.
<https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/aaai-2023-fall-symposium-series/>


Regards,

Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman.
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